Bug report for "big manifest" problem

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Tue Jun 30 17:10:27 CDT 2009


On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 17:45 -0400, Greg Ward wrote:
> Hi all --
> 
> is there a bug report for the "manifests are really big when you do
> lots of branching and merging" problem?  As I understand it, this is
> *not* specific to repositories converted from a CVS repo with lots of
> branching and merging, although that's where I'm seeing it.  It sounds
> to me like you would get the same pathological behaviour if you
> implemented a branch-and-merge heavy workflow that used Mercurial from
> day one.
> 
> Either way, I have got the impression that this is fixable, but it's
> not easy.  So should we have an entry in the bug tracker for it?  If
> no one objects or points me to the existing bug report that I could
> not find just now, I'll go create one.

Not that I'm aware of.

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